Cuff-supporter



(No Model.)

G. S. HASTINGS 8v C. H. NTTLETO'N.

GUPF SUPPOBQTER.

Patented Aug. 5, 1884.

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UNITED STATES EEICE.

PATENT OF WATERBURY, AND CHARLES H. XETTLETON, OF

CONNECTICUT.

Cui-'F-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed J anna To @ZZ whom it may' concern.'

Be itknown thatwe, GLovEE S. Hnsfrnves, of Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven, and CHARLES H. NETTLETON, of New Britain, in the county of Hartford, and State of Gonnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CufSupporters; and we do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof', whereby no a person skilled in the art can make and use the saine, reference being had to the aecompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters in the figures indicate the same 15 parts.

Figure 1 is a view of our device, showing it attached to the sleeve of a garment and holding a cuff( Fig. 2 is a top View of our device. Fig. 3 is a side view of same.

Our invention relates to the class of devices formed of Wire that are used more especially to attach a false cuff to the shirtsleeve, and are also useful in any place where articles are to be held in place temporarily.

It consists of a piece of spring-wire bent to form a spring of UU shape, the tongue forming a clip acting at right angles to'the plane of the arms,'wh1ch are elongated, and bear on their outerA ends a hooked point and a bent 3o socket, respectively, the ends being drawn toward each other by the outward pull of the spring at the bend.

In the accompanying drawings`,\tl}e letter a denotes the sleeve of a shirt or other garment; 3 5 b, a false cuff of ordinary form, and c the cuffsupporter as a whole, made of a single piece of spring-wire bent to form the clip d, and hook e, and guard f. On one end of the wire the sharpened 4o other the wire is or guard the formed in planes a with thehook arranged hook e is formed, and on the bent back to form the stop hook and the guard being t right angles to each other, between the main wire tongue.

Patent No. 303,005, dateclAugust 5, 1884.

ry 21, 1884. (No model.)

and the back-turned end. In the plane of the hook the wire spreads out and forms an open i5 figure of oblong shape, terminating in a narrowed part or tongue, g, that is in its doubled form bent back at right angles to the plane of the arms or main ligure and forms the clip d. When the edge of a cuii or like stiff material 5o is thrust under the tongue of the clip, as sh own in Fig. 1, it is held with a yielding pressure between the body of the supporter and the ln or ment-sleeve, usually between the thuni hand, compressed, as shown in full lines in Fig. 2, and the hook thrust through a fold of the cloth. On removing the pressure on the 6o sides the arms, bearing respectively the hook and the. guard, spring outward and take the position shown in dotted lines in Figs. l and 2. The bending ofthe wire at the narrowed part forms a spring that acts in the two oppo- 6 5 site planes, as already described, and the whole device is of a form and material that renders it cheap to make and simple and cflicient in use.

XVe claim as our invention- As an improved article of manufacture, a euffsnpportermadeof asingle piece of springwire bent to shape, substantially as described, one end forn'iing a hook, that is located and operates within the guard borne on the other 7 5 end of the wire, and with atongueturned back on the body of the supporter and forming a springclip to receive the lower edge of the cul', the hook and clip operating in opposite planes, all substantially as described, and for so the purpose set forth.

GLOVER S. HASTINGS. CHARLES H. NETTLETQN.

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